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BY Adam Melzer | 05-12-2009 | 11:18 AM
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Adam Melzer Coding was not necessarily planned out to any great degree, and the activity was limited in what it could produce by the lesser capabilities of early computers and tools. Many years later, we have computers on our desktops that would have qualified as super computers years ago, as well as countless software development tools and methodologies to choose from. Despite that, there is still a great deal of plain “programming” continuing to occur.

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Coding was not necessarily planned out to any great degree, and
the activity was limited in what it could produce by the lesser capabilities of
early computers and tools. Many years later, we have computers on our desktops
that would have qualified as super computers years ago, as well as countless
software development tools and methodologies to choose from. Despite that, there
is still a great deal of plain “programming” continuing to occur.
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Melzer NJ
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Adam Melzer Teaneck: The Customer side is mostly
interested in such a document being created and referenced during the project
and inspection. This facilitates the communication process between the customer
and the vendor or inspector, and can be based on the Glossary of Computerized
System and Software Development Terminology. Some examples of common
misinterpreted terms are shown in “General Principles of Software Validation,”
and relate to requirements, specification, verification, and validation.
Regulatory bodies perform inspections based on the project’s documented
definitions of terms.
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NJ

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Others claim that these processes are no longer needed,
as the newest wave of tools is selfdocumenting. In software development, there
have been efforts to justify each new tool as selfdocumenting, including older
programming tools. None of these tools force a developer to create code that is
legible or manageable. Indeed, the person that developed Assembler (a cryptic
code that operates at a lower level than the tools that most modern projects are
using) likely argued that it was selfdocumenting as it was much easier to read
than all those zeros and ones.